Discover Your Essential Bridge Companion: Bridge at a Glance

This compact, pocket-sized booklet is your must-have bridge companion, designed to accompany you wherever your bridge adventures take you. Slip it into your purse, back pocket, or convention card holder for easy access at all times. Inside, you'll find invaluable resources such as the color-coded Bidding Ladder, clarifications on bid meanings (forcing, invitational, or sign-off), and a user-friendly glossary. Whether you're playing Duplicate or Chicago, we've got you covered with handy scoring guides. Its intuitive tab design ensures you can swiftly and effortlessly access the information you need.

Bridge at a Glance serves as your go-to quick reference guide, condensing the key insights from Audrey Grant's acclaimed Bridge Basics series. These summaries complement Grant's books, offering a concise overview of her guidelines while her books delve deeper into the rationale behind them. Your bridge journey is about to get easier and more enjoyable with Bridge at a Glance by your side.

This book covers the concepts needed when both sides are bidding for the contract. It introduces the basic competitive tools - preemptive opening bids, overcalls, and takeout doubles - as used in today's game. The concepts and information presented are the most current and accurate available, developed with the assistance of the game's top champions. The material is presented in a clear and well-organized format, showing how to use the various competitive options to best advantage. Through this book, you'll be taking the next step into the magical world of bridge.

Standard American Yellow Card or SAYC is described and explained in this book. This book aids anyone wanting to learn and understand SAYC, or anyone who simply knows the basics and is eager to fill in the missing pieces in their repertoire. It also gives basic introduction to the standard bidding conventions used online.

Bridge Lessons for Aspiring players

The instructive material in this book is presented in a novel way, as if the author is delivering a series of bridge lessons to a small group of enthusiasts. Occasionally, members of the audience ask questions, or make comments.

Twelve important topics have been chosen, describing defensive techniques that you might apply several times during every session you play. Each lesson contains at least eight illustrative full deals, which are fully explained in David Bird's clear and lucid style. There is then a set of recap questions to test you on the chosen topic, along with the answers. Finally, there are four defense problems, which can be solved with the techniques just described.

Early lessons cover the basics of defense, signaling to partner, defensive communications, continue or switch, also a novel lesson on opening leads, based on results from computer analysis. You may be surprised how much there is to learn about these apparently straightforward elements of defense. Later, you can enjoy lessons on making declarer's life difficult, scoring ruffs and promotions, keeping the right cards, unblocking techniques, the forcing defense, breaking declarer's communications, and counting in defense. You can sharpen your defense by revisiting these lessons time and again.